Something for me

Right now I’m into my black walnut period. Two years ago we trimmed the black walnut tree in the backyard and all that wood is now nice and dry for turning and small projectsAfter bandsawing some thin black walnut boards I had to come up with a project because the crotch grain was soooooo nice. So I decided to make myself a business card case. I got tired of looking at all the dirty, dog-eared business cards in my wallet and it’s a poor first impression to the customer. I hope this case will impress them. The first picture is a shameless self-promotion, the second is the back and the third is the front. Note the inserted 2011 penny. The pictures do not do the grain justice.More black walnut projects to come.MIKE

JimI live in a VERY economically depressed area so I’m lucky to get whatever work I can get here. The major portion of the people that live around here are on social services if you do a job for them you are lucky to get paid at all. This is why I try getting commission work from other places. Does the wording work? If you can find the right people yes it does.MIKE

thelt, Look up business card holders right here on LJ. As for this one you would have to walk around the dusty recesses of my mind to find out how to do it. All I did was took a business card drew around it and designed from there. I bandsawed out some thin, like around 1/4”, boards from a black walnut branch. Made some narrow strips srome the boards for the center part where the cards go and just glued the whole thing together. Then I sawed the whole thing a bit narrower and shorter as one unit to make it square. The hard part was making the boards.MIKE